Psalm 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

Proverbs 21:24Proud, Arrogant, and Mocker are the names of him who acts with excessive pride.

Isaiah 13:11I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and humiliate the pride of tyrants.

Isaiah 25:4For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

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For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

the terrible

Isaiah 29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

Isaiah 25:4,5 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall…

the scorner

Isaiah 28:14-22 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem…

Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Luke 23:11,35 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate…

and all

Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Mark 2:6,7 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, …

Mark 3:2-6 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him…

(20) The terrible one.--The word stands, as in Isaiah 29:5, for the Assyrian invader; the "scorner," for the prophet's enemies who derided his message, and sought, "watching for iniquity," to find an accusation against him.

Verse 20. - The terrible one... the scorner. "The terrible one" may be the foreign enemy, as in ver. 5, or, possibly, the native oppressor (Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 5:93, etc.) - a still more tearful evil. "The scorner" is the godless man, who scoffs at religion (Isaiah 28:14, 22). Both classes would be "consumed" and "brought to naught" when the new state of things was established. All that watch for iniquity; i.e. "all those who, for the furtherance of their iniquitous schemes, rise up early and late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness" (Psalm 127:2).